Living downtown : the history of residential hotels in the United States /
From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Хэл сонгох: | англи |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1994.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8306181 |
| Тойм: | From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of li. |
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| Биет тодорхойлолт: | 1 online resource (xxii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
| Номзүй: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585328773 9780585328775 0520219546 9780520219540 9780520312791 0520312791 0520068769 9780520068766 |